Quotes About Creativity

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an artist then you give them the go-ahead.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

There are some very creative people out there who are like Steven Meisel, and that is why their work is so extraordinary.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.